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City of Toledo Pleas For Help In Arson Investigations

Thirty-one vacant house fires in the last two months have the city of Toledo on edge. So much so that the Mayor announced the reward for valuable information has been boosted to $25,000 in hopes of solving some of the yet-unsolved blazes in the area. Of the six most populous cities in the state, Toledo has had the most arson cases per capita in the past year. [read more...]

This entry was posted on Monday, July 19th, 2010 at 8:06 pm and is filed under criminal law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

New Ohio Laws to Reduce Wrongful Convictions

A new set of laws in Ohio will work to keep the criminal process more efficient while simultaneously reducing the change of wrongful convictions and eyewitness identifications. While it may take prosecutors and police some time to adjust, the adjustments will be well worth it and are coming at a very good time—when dozens of states have passed similar legislation. [read more...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 9:35 pm and is filed under criminal law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Ohio Considering More Probation, Less Prison

Budgets across the nation are tight. States spend exorbitant amounts on locking up their citizens. So much that the United States incarcerates people at the highest rate in the world. But balancing a budget might mean slowing down on the locking up as this report from the Dayton Daily News. [read more...]

This entry was posted on Friday, June 11th, 2010 at 8:36 pm and is filed under criminal law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Ohio Supreme Court Rules Officer Estimate Good Enough for Speeding Ticket

In a 5-1 ruling, the Ohio Supreme Court decided that a trained police officer’s visual estimate of a cars speed is sufficient proof to assess a finding of guilty with a speeding ticket. [read more...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 at 9:21 pm and is filed under criminal law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Two Years Patrolling With a License Plate Scanner

After spending two years with only an automatic license plate reader as a partner, a local Ohio police officer says it is an invaluable law enforcement tool. Interesting details on it’s use are provided in this news item in the Dayton Daily News. [read more...]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 at 5:39 pm and is filed under license plate scanners, outstanding warrant. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Small Town Ohio Faced with Human Trafficking

Often when you think of human trafficking you think of big cities and immigrants being conned into servitude. A recent case, crossing state lines from Maryland to small town Ohio, however, proves this isn’t always the case. [read more...]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 at 5:24 pm and is filed under criminal law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Ohio Sexting Laws Reform

There was a good editorial in the Journal News about the state legislature’s efforts to reform Ohio’s child pornography laws to account for teen “sexting”. Under existing statutes, a teen possessing a sexually explicit photo of his girlfriend sent to his phone or computer could be charges with felony possession of child pornography and convicted as a sex offender. [read more...]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 at 12:48 am and is filed under criminal law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Brimfield, OH Adds License Plate Scanners

Brimfield Township is the latest Ohio law enforcement agency to deploy high tech license plate scanning devices to identify and flag drivers wanted by the police. These cameras mounted on police cars and connected to computer systems inside the police car alter officers to the nearby presence of cars that are being sought by law enforcement and government agencies. [read more...]

This entry was posted on Monday, May 10th, 2010 at 8:47 pm and is filed under license plate scanners. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Ohio Lawmakers Consider Medical Marijuana

Marijuana laws are changing across the country and although there is medical marijuana legislation pending in Ohio, many are saying the legislation will never pass. Caught up in politics and the fear that a “yes” vote on this law could cost them some election votes, some politicians are said to be playing it safe. [read more...]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 at 7:40 pm and is filed under drug laws. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Ohio Woman Convicted and Sentenced for Identity Theft of Sister

A nineteen year old Sidney woman was sentenced to 6 months in the Ohio Reformatory for Women after giving police her sister’s name when being investigated on theft charges. According to the Dayton Daily News, the judge said the woman’s actions were a “slap in the face to the criminal justice system.” [read more...]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 at 9:22 pm and is filed under criminal law, fraud. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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